Studies of reconciliation in primates have demonstrated that if the relationship value increases between two parties they are more willing to make peace.

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.